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GUS

"GUS" is a plural of: gu.

"GUS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "great", "venerable", "increase".

Date "GUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

"GUS" is a common misspelling or typo for: gas, gnus, guess, gums, guns, gush, gust, guts.


Specialty Definition: GUS

DomainDefinition

Census

(Geographic Update System) A decentralized hardware/software system to encode updates to the TIGER File. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: GUS

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

GUS

EnglishGuide to the Use of StandardsN/A

GUS

GermanGemeinschaft Unabhängiger StaatenGeography

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: GUS

Synonyms by domain: Global User Station (computing), glucuromidase (medicine), Guide to the Use of Standards (computing).

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Crosswords: GUS

Specialty definitions using "GUS": Geographic Update System for X Window. (references)
Non-English Usage: "GUS" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Scottish (and the verbal, anything, preceding an, the art. of the n., till, to, until).

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Modern Usage: GUS

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I mean it, Gus. Why not, go north with a herd? (Lonesome Dove; writing credit: Larry McMurtry; William D. Wittliff)

Lyrics

Hop on the bus, Gus (50 Ways To Leave Your Lover; performing artist: PAUL SIMON)

Tongue Twisters

Gus goes by Blue Goose bus. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Greasy Gus (1967)

Grateful Gus (1958)

Aubrey and Gus (1955)

My Pal Gus (1952)

Donald's Cousin Gus (1939)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: GUS

DomainTitle

References

  • GUS P.L.C.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Anorak of Fire: The Life and Times of Gus Gascoigne, Trainspotter: A Monologue (reference)

  • Gus and Button (reference)

  • Gus Tells the Truth (Chatty Chums Series) (reference)

  • An Artilleryman's War: Gus Dey and the 2nd United States Artillery (reference)

  • Gus Dur: The Authorized Biography of Abdurrahman Wahid (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: GUS

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Gus Grissom & Milt Thompson With Paresev. Credit: NASA.

On high mountain rangelands in central Utah, range technician Gus Warr collects larkspur samples to measure alkaloid levels. Credit: USDA ARS News.

Gus Dorner. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gus Krock. Credit: Library of Congress.

Three Communist Party leaders convicted of conspiracy to teach the overthrow of the government are shown at the Supreme Court. Left to right: John Gates of New York, Gus Hall of Cleveland, and Carl Winer of Detroit. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Big Tim" Sullivan talking with Gus Roeder. Credit: Library of Congress.

Oakland community, Greene County, Georgia (vicinity). Mrs. Gus Wright, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, with some of her canned goods. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Gus Wright, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, with her canned goods. Oakland community, Greene County, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gus Worke, a farmer who came from Germany 40 years ago, Southington, Conn. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jackson & Perkins, Newark, New Jersey. Gus Boerner. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: GUS

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

According to GUS the percentage share of footwear and leather industry in the total sale amounted to 1,8% in 1999. The market for footwear has achieved a steady level. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

In October 1999 the MPR elected a compromise candidate, Abdurrahman Wahid (a.k.a Gus Dur), as the country's fourth president, and Megawati Sukarnoputri, a daughter of the country's first president, as the vice president. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: GUS

"GUS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 73.74% of the time. "GUS" is used about 99 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)73.74%7339,105
Noun (singular)16.16%1687,710
Noun (common)9.09%9117,287
Noun (plural)1.01%1339,140
                    Total100.00%99N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: GUS

The following table summarizes the usage of "GUS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
GusFirst name Male11,000637
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: GUS

"GUS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "great", "venerable", "increase".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "GUS."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
AugustusMaleAncient RomanN/A
AugustaFemaleEnglishAugustus
AugustineMaleEnglishAugustus
GusMaleEnglishAugustus
AukustiMaleFinnishAugustus
AugusteMaleFrenchAugustus
AugustMaleGermanAugustus
AugustaFemaleItalianAugustus
AugustoMaleItalianAugustus
AugustsMaleLatvianAugustus
AugustMalePolishAugustus
AugustaFemalePolishAugustus
AugustoMalePortugueseAugustus
AugustoMaleSpanishAugustus
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: GUS

CountryName
United Kingdom

GUS P.L.C.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: GUS

Expression using "GUS": gloomy Gus. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GUS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gus macker

598

gus pickle

10

gus

198

gus lee

10

gus gus

104

gus hansen

10

gus macker basketball

53

3 3 gus macker

9

gus van sant

40

gus macker wausau

9

gus harley

31

kahn gus

9

gus macker tournament

29

gus home shopping

8

gus grissom

28

chevrolet gus paulos

8

elephant gus sant van

27

gus paulos

8

gus macker.com

21

gus present

8

gus macker basketball tournament

19

gus plc

7

gus giordano

16

gus macker schedule

7

2003 gus macker

14

dur gus

7

buffalo gus macker

13

brown gus

6

gus machado ford

12

gus frerotte

6

gus ludington macker

12

gus johnson

6

gus johnson ford

11

gus smacker

6

gus hall

11

gus trikonis

5

chillicothe gus macker

11

gus pretzels

5

gus maker

11

david gus gus

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: GUS

Derivations

Words beginning with "GUS": gush, gushed, gusher, gushers, gushes, gushier, gushiest, gushily, gushiness, gushinesses, gushing, gushingly, gushy, gusset, gusseted, gusseting, gussets, gussie, gussied, gussies, gussy, gussying, gust, gustable, gustables, gustation, gustations, gustatorily, gustatory, gusted, gustier, gustiest, gustily, gustiness, gustinesses, gusting, gustless, gusto, gustoes, gusts, gusty. (additional references)

Words ending with "GUS": anilingus, anthropophagus, argus, asparagus, bogus, choragus, choregus, cunnilingus, dingus, esophagus, fugus, fungus, kagus, magus, microfungus, mundungus, negus, oesophagus, pemphigus, sarcophagus, tragus, vagus, valgus, vulgus. (additional references)

Words containing "GUS": anilinguses, arguses, august, auguster, augustest, augustly, augustness, augustnesses, choraguses, choreguses, cunnilinguses, degust, degustation, degustations, degusted, degusting, degusts, dinguses, disgust, disgusted, disgustedly, disgustful, disgustfully, disgusting, disgustingly, disgusts, esophaguses, funguses, microfunguses, mundunguses, neguses, outgush, outgushes, pemphiguses, sarcophaguses, valguses, vulguses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"GUS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Egusa, Gaus, Gcu, Ghu, Goz, Gue, gusa, Gusau, Guse, gusk, guss, Guus, Gxu, Ogus, Ugb, Ugs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: GUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-s-u"

-1 letter: us.

 Words containing the letters "g-s-u"
 

+1 letter: bugs, dugs, fugs, gnus, guls, gums, guns, gush, gust, guts, guvs, guys, hugs, jugs, lugs, mugs, pugs, rugs, slug, smug, snug, sugh, sung, tugs, ughs, vugs.

 

+2 letters: agues, argus, bogus, bungs, burgs, chugs, drugs, dungs, frugs, fugus, gauds, gaums, gaurs, gauss, genus, geums, glues, glugs, gluts, gouts, grubs, grues, guans, guars, gucks, gudes, guess, guest, guffs, guids, guise, gules, gulfs, gulls, gulps, gunks, gursh, gurus, gushy, gussy, gusto, gusts, gusty, gutsy, gyrus, iglus, kagus, luges, lungs, magus, muggs, negus, plugs, pungs, quags, rungs, sagum, saugh, segue, shrug, slugs, slung, snugs, sough, sprug, squeg, stung, sugar, sughs, suing, surge, surgy, swung, thugs, trugs, tungs, urges, usage, using, vagus, vuggs, vughs, yugas.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GUS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 55 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    ..-    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0055 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

415553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Frequency
10. Names: Derived from
11. Names: Company Usage
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Abbreviations
15. Acronyms
16. Derivations
17. Anagrams
18. Orthography
19. Bibliography


  

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